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OMG Adorable Concrete Planter Tutorial

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This Spring DIY is so adorable! This is so simple and will be sure to give your home that springtime happiness everyone is longing for. This is the perfect craft do with the family! Pet rocks Kids Craft Tutorial.

Concrete is a fun medium to work with, best of all because it is an industrial product it is usually sold in bulk, which means much more affordable. A 20kg bag can cost you under $10. Now that’s a whole lot of concrete making.

We have so many DIY concrete projects on our blog that you should check out. Concrete is hard on the skin, so if you are touching it make sure you use gloves, apart from all the concrete chemicals seeping into your skin it is really rather drying.

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How to Store Embroidery Needles

I have a complicated relationship with my embroidery needles. Which is a fancy way of saying I don’t really take care of my needles at all. Even though I know I have embroidery needles to use for cross stitch and sewing, needles that are certainly still in their packages, I can rarely find them when I need them.

So when I saw this post from Crewel Ghoul about how to store your embroidery needles, it hit close to home for me.

It doesn’t really say anything I didn’t already know, but it is good advice that might also serve as a reminder for you to take better care of your needles when you cross stitch or do other hand-sewing projects so that you’ll be able to find your needles again when you need them.

It would help me a lot if I had a dedicated place to keep needles I’m not using, including the needles that are still in their packages from when I bought them. You’d think I would keep them with my embroidery floss but apparently you would be mistaken about that.

Another good idea for me is to have a place to put needles I’ve been using when I am done with them. Because goodness knows I’m not going to put them back in the package. (Which may actually be a good thing because then I know which one I’ve been using and which ones are fresh. Not that I replace my needles regularly, but still.) I own pincushions but I don’t really use them for anything, which is silly.

Check out the post at Crewel Ghoul to see all the options available for storing your embroidery needles properly. I’d love to hear what you do, especially if you have a better system than I do (which, honestly, would be any system at all).

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]